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Bay County, Michigan

Bay County, Michigan has 10 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 1.4 GW and 2 planned projects totaling 165 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1.4 GW across 6 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
10
power projects, planned and operating
165MW
planned generation, 2 projects
1.4GW
operating generation, 8 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Bay County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Gladwin Midland no data centers Saginaw no data centers Arenac Bay no data centers Tuscola no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
12%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 165 MW planned across 2 projects against 1.4 GW operating.

Operating generation1.4 GW
Planned generation165 MW

Technology mix

10 projects, 1.6 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas1.4 GW6 projects, 89%
Solar165 MW2 projects, 10%
Landfill Gas3.2 MW2 projects, 0%
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Power generation in the county

8 plants operate inside Bay County, 1.4 GW of natural gas and landfill gas. The queue adds 165 MW across 2 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Bay County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 1.4 GW 6 projects
SolarPlanned 165 MW 2 projects
Landfill GasOperating 3.2 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating61,430.3
SolarPlanned2165
Landfill GasOperating23.2
Operating: 1.4 GW. Planned: 165 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.6 GW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
050100150200 Snapshot year 165 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20262165
No planned project is past its listed year

Bay County against its neighbors

None of the 3 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Midland County has the most operating generation among them, 1.9 GW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Midland County 0
0
1,854
761 0x
Bay County this page 0
0
1,434
165 0x
Tuscola County 0
0
656
1,222 0x
Saginaw County 0
0
9
1,431 0x

Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.

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What changed since June 4, 2026

1 project in Bay County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.

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0
added to a queue, 0 MW
0
came online, started construction or signed an interconnection agreement, 0 MW
1
cancelled, dropped or went inactive, 165 MW
0
slipped their in-service date, 0 MW

Every change in Bay County

Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.

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County: Bay County, MISince June 4, 2026 1 change
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Every record in Bay County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 10 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Bay County, MIStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 10 records
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